17 AUGUST 1945, page 10

On The Other Hand, Mr. Bevin May Fall Into The

opposite extreme. He may be so appalled by the intricacy of the transactions with which he has' to deal that he may exaggerate his difficulties and fall into a mood of sullen......

The Danger Is, Rather, That Since His Knowledge Of Foreign

condi- tions is specialised rather than general, he may be tempted to regard his task either as easier, or else as more difficult, than, in fact, it is. On the one hand, he may......

Those Who Know Mr. Bevin Intimately Are Agreed That He

possesses three outstanding qualifications. He is a realist, in that he believes that facts are more important than theories and that policy should be governed by circumstances......

It Is A Mistake, I Should Suggest, To Draw A

profit and loss account between Mr. Eden's vast knowledge, and Mr. Bevin's com- parative ignorance. I should not myself define the actual knowledge which Mr. Eden possessed as......

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON A MONG the many somewhat bewildered questions which one has heard during the last fortnight, perhaps the most frequent has been " What sort of Foreign......